AFP, United Kingdom :
Manchester United’s teenage forward Marcus Rashford says England’s dismal display at Euro 2016 means he is unable to look back at his first major tournament with any kind of fondness.
Rashford broke into the England squad in time for the tournament after exploding onto the scene with United in the second half of the 2015-16 season.
But having made only two fleeting substitute appearances in France, including a three-minute cameo in England’s humiliating last 16 loss to Iceland, it is not a memory he really treasures.
“I’ll be honest with you, it is difficult to see it as a positive when you’re losing because in those games you don’t have the chance to get it back,” he told reporters on Monday.
“If it’s for your club and it’s a league game, if you lose a game you have another game next week and you can kind of redeem yourself.
“It’s not like that at tournament football and that’s why it was so, so disappointing and hard to take.”
Fifteen months on from the Iceland debacle, England are on the brink of qualifying for next year’s World Cup.
